Smart Freight Centre and PragmaCharge launch electrification program

Smart Freight Centre (SFC) is an international non-profit organization focused on reducing the emission impacts of global freight transportation. The SFC Community unites members and partners committed to driving change. SFC’s vision and mission is to enable zero-emissions logistics by 2050 or earlier, by mobilizing the global logistics ecosystem.

SFC launched a major initiative last year in the US, the I-10 Zero Emission Freight Corridor, electrifying the Los Angeles to El Paso corridor. SFC is now launching a similar initiative in Europe in partnership with PragmaCharge, the Poland-Germany Zero Emission Freight Corridor. This partnership is a unique opportunity to showcase a model for sustainable and cost-effective electrification of freight corridors.

PragmaCharge shall provide comprehensive end-to-end solutions to help heavy-duty truck fleet owners decarbonize their fleet. Its electric-Trucking-as-a-Service (eTaaS) and Charging-as-a-Service (CaaS) solutions include Fleet Electrification Planning software and analytics, comprehensive Charging Services through access to its charging hubs around ports, rail terminals, major freight corridors and logistics depots, fleet management cloud services, and electric truck leasing.

SFC and PragmaCharge have developed a high-level Electrification Plan for the corridor based on the 250 million annual kilometers of trucking data received from participating shippers and carriers, which has the potential of reducing CO2 emissions by ~200k tons/year. The resulting Fleet Electrification Plan was presented during Smart Freight Week in Amsterdam in March 2025.

SFC and PragmaCharge will jointly develop and deliver a scalable solution that would be TCO-positive compared to new diesel trucks along the corridor. Major benefits for participating Shipping / Logistics Service Providers and Carriers include:

• Fleet electrification plan development: PragmaCharge Software to ingest and analyze the historical duty-cycle data to present a comprehensive electrification plan including total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Shared charging infrastructure will lower the upfront and operational costs for carriers. Joint application, as a consortium, for the subsidies announced by the government in Poland will make the financial case even more compelling.
• Improved charging accessibility: Strategic placement of chargers will ensure carriers have convenient and reliable access to high-powered charging stations along the corridor, minimizing charging time.
• Decarbonization & compliance: PragmaCharge Fleet Management Software and Cloud Services to provide GLEC-compliant GHG emissions reporting to support carriers to meet EU emissions reporting required under EU ETS-2 (from 2027) and help align with broader sustainability goals of their respective companies and their customers.
• Scalability & future expansion: The model can be replicated and expanded to other key road freight corridors across Europe.

Christoph Wolff, CEO of Smart Freight Centre, said: “PragmaCharge’s software and analytics using the data provided by our Shipping Logistics partners made a great contribution for a compelling case for Fleet Electrification Plan for the Corridor. Electrification can be cost effective and scalable. We invite our valued shippers and carrier partners to join this consortium. We look forward to working with you and the PragmaCharge team in developing Europe's largest road freight decarbonization program.”

Anil Srivastava, CEO of PragmaCharge, said: “We are truly excited about the partnership with Smart Freight Centre who have built a strong consortium of the world’s leading shipping and logistics service providers and carriers operating on and in the vicinity of A2 and A4 corridor. We are targeting the electrification of more than 6 thousand trucks operating per day between the cities of Poznan, Wroclaw, Warsaw and Krakow, and the road network that links these cities with Germany, including the North Sea-Baltic and Baltic Sea-Adriatic Sea TEN-T corridor network. Our simplified Charging-as-Service on €-per-kWh or our integrated Electric Trucking -as-a-Service on €-per-Km will deliver TCO-positive solutions to the Carriers to help them accelerate electrification”